The beta version of wget2 has been released — a complete rewrite of the wget spider downloader.
Key Differences:
- Supports HTTP2.
- Functionality has been moved to the libwget library (LGPL3+). The interface is not yet stable.
- Multithreading.
- Speed improvements through HTTP and HTTP2 compression, parallel connections, and If-Modified-Since in the HTTP header.
- Plugins.
- FTP is not supported.
According to the manual, the command-line interface supports all the keys of the latest Wget 1 version (except for FTP) and adds many new ones, mainly related to new authentication methods and HTTP2.
And the second drawback besides FTP: one of the conceptual opponents of the XZ compressor has been involved in the development. All archives are released as tar.gz or tar.lz.
Source: linux.org.ru
